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Absolute Menace
🕑 Added 2022-03-07 14:26:26 +0000 UTC.................
Chapter 26: Absolute Menace
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"Y-you didn't sleep?" Selina questioned, seeing Ian sitting right where she left him though he doesn't seem to be exhausted.
"Hm? Ah, I was busy, I will sleep later." Ian casually responded, his focus was still on the scroll.
Selina walked up to him, made him look into her eyes, "I rarely ask you to do anything, so please listen to me, gather all of your stuff, and take the plane back to Gotham lest you miss the flight, and make sure to sleep well in the plane.
Remember, you have all the time in the world for this, so take good care of yourself... Please?" Concern was apparent in her tone, and he didn't have in himself to refuse her.
He also realized that perhaps his obsession took the better of him, "Alright... And thanks."
Selina smiled, seemingly in a good mood, "I'll be going now, we'll talk in Gotham." Afterward, she left.
Ian did indeed gather all of his stuff and double-checked to make sure he didn't leave anything behind.
He also placed the dead hell scroll in a small case to make sure nothing happens to it, it's quite frail after all.
He then made his way to the airport. Just like when they came here, they arrived separately, and it was the same now.
He was quite sleepy, so he didn't notice the strange atmosphere outside. Very few people were outside, it was unsettlingly silent.
He took a taxi, one of the very few outside, "You're also leaving huh? The times we're living in, right?" The driver said after hearing Ian's destination.
Ian raised his brow in confusion, "I'm just going back home. Did something happen?"
"Y-you don't know?" The taxi driver asked. He was understandably a bit speechless.
"No?"
"Well, I guess I can tell you. Apparently, there are aliens, and they want to destroy the earth or something, they also want to get their kid or something, I'm really not sure what's happening, but I believe they want superman? You know, the strong heroes who's known for fighting crime."
The speaker of the driver started running as he spoke to no end, "I spoke to my fellow drivers in the morning, and they said that it's just a government conspiracy or something like that. I honestly just want to go on with my life with no trouble. Go to work, get paid, and come back to my family, but the world is getting crazier and crazier as of recently."
"Oh... Wait," That sparked his memories of just this morning, "General Zod, right? I thought he was some kind of terrible actor... Why did I think that?"
Ian started comprehending just how bad his obsession was. He remembers a lot about this world from his past one, yet he forgot someone as known as general Zod, 'No, I didn't forget, I just didn't process the information... Well, whatever.'
The cab driver was again speechless, 'What a weird person.' He thought just as they reached the airport.
Not many people were around, everyone that wanted to leave had already taken the flight first thing in the morning.
Ian paid the driver and then took his duffel bag from the trunk. Just as he was walking into the airport entrance, he heard a loud sound near him.
He turned his head and saw a falling body and rubbles scattering everywhere.
He could also see afar away faint figures, seemingly fighting. He ignored those and focused on the figure that has fallen close to him, and another object right by his side.
Ian crouched and picked up the dagger, an exquisite dagger. Cold to the touch with complex engravings all over it.
He then started walking towards the person, a woman with dark hair clouded in heavy dark armor.
She seemed to be dizzy as Ian crouched next to her ignored the screams and panic of everyone around. People fleed without looking back.
"Are you okay?" Ian questioned, seemingly worried about her health.
The woman faintly eyed him as if looking at an insect as she started to get her bearing back.
"Give it back and get away from me?" She spoke talking about the dagger, she even thought about killing him right there and then just out of annoyance.
"It's quite the fabulous artifact... I'd really like to add it to my collection. How about leaving it me for memory's sake, you have that huge sword anyway, so it doesn't matter."
Ian started mumbling nonstop, preaching to her about generosity despite knowing of her being an alien.
"Shut up!" She had none of it as she bellowed and got ready to punch him to oblivion. However, she found herself stumbling and falling to her knees, powerless.
"W-what's happening! Could it be..." She lifted her face, staring at Ian with trepidation as he pulled something out of his bag, a small piece of green kryptonite.
"Phew, I almost died but you seem to be generous enough, so don't mind me." He spoke as he placed the kryptonite just a few steps away from her.
He then approached her and took her sword as she shouted in anger, "Don't you dare! Do you think it's this easy!? I will find you, and I will make you suffer!!"
Ian smiled at her, "Don't worry about it, everything is going to be fine, now let me see what else you have on you."
His shamelessness was reaching new height as took some kind of necklace from her. He then put everything in the bag and barely managed to squeeze part of the sword inside.
"I'll unfortunately have to sacrifice this, but I'm at least giving you a chance."
He was speaking about the kryptonite that was making her weaker and weaker by the second to the point she could barely move her muscles by this point, yet he didn't think that was enough.
"Let me move it just a bit more away. Surely you will be able to crawl your way to it."
Ah, she was fuming like never before. Urse, general Zod's wife and a being capable of destroying mountains has never in her life thought of experiencing such a level of humiliation.
Ian walked back to the cab under the dumbfounded taxi driver's eyes, "I changed my mind, how about driving me to another place? I will pay you double... You'll be kind enough to do that, wouldn't you?"
His tones and words were almost too menacing for the driver to bear, and thus Ian got what he wanted.
He acquired himself a car through unnatural means and drove to Gotham instead of taking a plane.
He knows that perhaps a camera has caught what he has done, thus he has to keep a low profile.
Luckily, his identity is forged, and the government doesn't have his picture and Id, so all they'll find with the footage is an unknown face.
However, Ian knows that it's only a matter of time before his traces lead them to Gotham.
He was not only an absolute menace to society but also to the new arrivals, the Kryptonians. Luckily, they were stopped by Superman.
However, Ian's actions still attracted the attention of a few individuals, whether good or bad attention, only time will tell.
